Forward thinking is natural for most people!

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Aug 22, 2015 at 22:14

Dear Dr Pipes,

The frustration felt by your reader James Burke againt the democratic setup in Israel is faced by every democracy in the world where Muslims live. The good old and simple days where every person had one vote and no one created vote banks based on religions are long gone. We do not have to figure out if Muslims exploit the freedoms offered by democracies to advance their own agenda. Reading the rhetoric used by the spokesmen of the religion is enough. I have never heard CAIR talk against Islamic fundamentalism ever. Only a rare muslim politician in India stands up against Islamic fundamentalism. Even in the USA we encounter more Islamic apologists among the Muslims than rational open-minnded thinkers.

It is easy for people to speak in favor of our religions: all of us are indoctrinated in our religions from our earliest childhood. If most of us do not blindly support our religions it is because we deliberately choose an inconvenient path for us. We do so because we know that the convenient path is unfair to others. Unfortunately, this wisdom has not dawned among the minds of Islamic society. To them their religion is created by God and must be advanced at all costs.

I do not fully understand the meaning of kadimah (or the goals of the political party with that name) but if it means forward looking positions taken by Israeli people, I can only say that it is natural. The reason billions of Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddists, and athiests live together in relative peace in many countries of the world is due to our forward thinking which lets by gones be by gones. Unfortunately, in the Islamic political setup every conflict is a war and no war is over until it is won.

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